Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective

In Translating Blackness Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation--rather than solely a site of identity--through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg. She also considers the lives of Black Latina women living in the diaspora, such as Black Dominicana guerrillas who migrated throughout the diaspora after the 1965 civil war and Black immigrant and second-generation women like Mercedes Frías and Milagros Guzmán organizing in Italy with other oppressed communities. In demonstrating that analyses of Black Latinidad must include Latinx people and cultures throughout the diaspora, García Peña shows how the vaivén--or, coming and going--at the heart of migrant life reveals that the nation is not a sufficient rubric from which to understand human lived experiences.

Author: Lorgia García Peña
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/23/2022
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781478018667
ISBN10: 1478018666
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Black Studies (Global)
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Hispanic American Studies
- History | Latin America | South America

About the Author
Lorgia García Peña is Mellon Associate Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University and author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction, also published by Duke University Press, and Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color.